Action of 1 August 1801
The Action of 1 August 1801 was a single-ship action of the First Barbary War fought between the American schooner USS Enterprise and the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli off the coast of modern-day Libya. Tripoli put up a stubborn fight and perfidiously feigned surrender three times in an engagement lasting three hours before the Americans captured the polacca. The success of the...